
The Apocalyptic Year 1000
Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050
Oxford University Press
Published on 26. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-19-516162-5 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this book challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. Several basic questions unify the essays: What chronological and theological assumptions underlay apocalyptic and millennial speculations around the Year 1000? How broadly disseminated were those speculations? Can we speak of a mentality of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties on the eve of the millennium? If so, how did authorities respond to or even contribute to the formation of this mentality? What were the social ramifications of apocalyptic hopes and anxieties, and of any efforts to suppress or redirect the more radical impulses that bred them? How did contemporaries conceptualize and then historicize the passing of the millennial date of 1000? Including the work of British, French, German, Dutch, and American scholars, this book will be the definitive resource on this fascinating topic, and should at the same time provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.
Reviews / Votes
The collection is a first-rate guide to the state of the question and would well suit undergraduate and graduate courses on historiography and methodology. * Catholic Historical Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-516162-5 (9780195161625)
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The Apocalyptic Year 1000
Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050
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The Apocalyptic Year 1000
Religious Expectaton and Social Change, 950-1050
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Persons
Landes, Richard (Professor of History, Boston University, USA) / Gow, Andrew (Assistant Professor of History, University of Alberta, Canada) / Van Meter, David
Editor
Associate Professor of HistoryAssociate Professor of History, Boston University, USA
Professor of HistoryProfessor of History, University of Alberta